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EDUCATION

  • Freedom to Learn (Peter Gray)
  • Benni’s blog (Benni Schmutzer)
  • Sudbury.de [German]
  • tologo verlag [German]
  • Educación Democrática [Spanish]

SCHOOLS

I’m currently at: Institute for Linguistics, University of Leipzig

I co-founded and used to attend: Sudbury Jerusalem [Hebrew],

Which is modeled after: Sudbury Valley School

SOME ACRONYMS

  • EUDEC – The European Democratic Education Community
  • CASE – Center for Advancing Sudbury Education
  • IDEA – The Institute for Democratic Education in America
  • AERO – Alternative Education Resource Organization

PEACE

  • +972 Magazine
  • Slippery Slope (notes from a crumbling democracy): Hebrew / English*
  • Friends of George [Hebrew] & Wish You Orwell (Yossi Gurvitz)
  • Max Blumenthal
  • Waging Nonviolence
*Disclaimer: I am a volunteer editor and translation team organizer at the English version of the Slippery Slope.

LANGUAGE

  • The “because” charade (Daniel Harbour; posts are not only about language)
  • Language Log
  • Speculative Grammarian (where linguists go to laugh to death)
  • The Lousy Linguist
  • [ʃplɔk] [German] (Kristin Kopf)
(sorted more or less by topic) EDUCATION Freedom to Learn (Peter Gray) Benni’s blog (Benni Schmutzer) Sudbury.de [German] tologo verlag [German] Educación Democrática [Spanish] SCHOOLS I’m currently at: Institute for Linguistics, University...

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Michael Sappir

An Israeli recently returned from studying linguistics in Germany. A graduate and proponent of Sudbury schools, and an activist for democratic education and for social justice for Israelis and Palestinians.

Shoshana London Sappir

Writer, translator, peace activist and co-founder of the Sudbury Jerusalem school. Michael's mother. Posts occasionally.

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Israel

  • Not one to comment
  • Fear and tear gas in Nabi Saleh (by Shoshana)
  • Debate arguments, not motives

Education

  • Some thoughts about "democratic schools"
  • No curriculum, ever
  • Problems with authority
  • Only autonomy prepares you for autonomy
  • A Tirade Against Exams
  • Reality as a function of belief
  • Preparing to succeed

Linguistics

  • Why grammar?
  • Three-quarters two

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